Black Screen after starting games on Ultrawide monitor

N00bishReasoning

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after booting a game it loads for a bit then immediately cuts out sound, the monitor then goes black and disconnects. i have to to hard reset for it to work again. Temps are fine

Specs~~~~
CPU-i5 4690k
GPU-ASUS GTX 970 400+core clock 130+Memory (Overclock)
Motherboard-Asus Z97-A
Ram-8gb Corsair Vengence ram
Storage-500gb WD Blue,2tb Seagate 7200RPM, 120gb SSD
Monitor-Pixio PX347c prime 3440x1440 100hz
~~~~~All drivers have been updated~~~~~
 
Solution
+400 on the core clock? What are voltages on your GPU? That seems like an insanely high overclock and your GPU is probably automatically failing as soon as you try to boot a game with it.

Did it work fine with the same overclock on a different monitor? Did it work before the overclock?

JalYt_Justin

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+400 on the core clock? What are voltages on your GPU? That seems like an insanely high overclock and your GPU is probably automatically failing as soon as you try to boot a game with it.

Did it work fine with the same overclock on a different monitor? Did it work before the overclock?
 
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N00bishReasoning

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after i restored to an old restore point i reinstalled msi afterburner.. i accidentally mixed up the core and memory clocks which resulted in me crashing . Thank you for your help